Jebb was over at the garage with Bo and Luke as the three were having their breakfast of beer and doughnuts with Cooter just like every Saturday morning. Cooter had been going on about his latest date which of course led to the other two bachelors to brag about their latest dates as well. Jebb was certain that the majority of the stories that the other three were telling were more embellishments than anything else. Of course, he’d be a good sport and not tell them he thought that. He listened as they each told how they had seduced the girl of their choice last night.

Of course none of their stories had anything on some that he could tell about his and Kira’s sex life. Jebb was just waiting for Bo to get a little too smart then he’d enjoy watching him squirm since he never seemed to be able to handle hearing much about his sister and sex in the same topic. In fact, his wake up call this morning alone put the stories that the other guys were telling to shame. Just thinking about it made Jebb smile to himself.

“Come on guys, I think that we might want to cool it. After all, Jebb there might start to feeling left out. Poor man, he’s tied to the marriage bed now. All the fun’s been sucked out of his sex life by now. Especially since Kira’s pregnant.” Cooter figured that he’d tease the one married man in their little group. He didn’t miss the fact that Jebb choke on his beer when he called him out. “How’s it feel to be back to cold showers Buddy Roo?”

“I’ll let you know just as soon as I have to start taking them. And who says that being Tied to the marriage bed is boring? You might well be surprised just how much fun it can be.” The way he smiled had two of the three men leaning in to hear more.

“I don’t think that I want to hear this.” Bo eyed his blond cousin.

“Then take a walk. We do,” Luke smirked at Bo.

“Come on Luke, we’d never just sit here and listen to some guy talkin’ about Daisy like this.”

“Yeh, but this ain’t just some guy. Jebb here is Kira’s husband. Come on. You know it’s all going to be one big exaggeration anyway. We might as well humor him. It’s all the guy’s got left.”

“Gee, thanks.” Jebb gave a soured look to his oldest cousin. “At least I ain’t stuck waitin’ for the weekend hopin’ that I’ll be able to convince the girl of the week to be agreeable with whatever plans I might have for the night. I have the feelin’ that y’all are the ones being reduced to takin’ cold showers on a regular basis. I can have as much as I want on any day of the week that I want.”

“That’s not what I heard.” Luke had to keep the conversation going. How often does he get the chance to make both cousins squirm?

“What do ya mean?” Jebb cocked a brow at Luke.

“Daisy found that list of instructions for Kira that Doc Appleby left at y’alls house. And the restrictions to go with it. You know that she couldn’t keep quiet about something like that, right?”

“What restrictions?” Bo and Cooter both asked since it was obvious that Luke had been holding out on them.

“Kira’s not ALLOWED to keep Jebb entertained, if you get my meaning. Weekends or otherwise. So that she don’t risk goin’ into labor again,” Luke smirked since even though they had all stretched the truth a bit in regards to their love-lives from time to time; Jebb just got caught doing it is all.

“See, now that’s what you get for getting your information second hand. Kira isn’t forbidden to have ANY sex. She’s just not allowed to do CERTAIN sex acts. That doesn’t mean that our bedroom’s been closed for business.” Jebb grinned at the memory of some of their more recent escapades. “In fact, Kira will do a lot things that most of the women that I’ve dated in the past WOULDN’T do. She’s always willing to try anything new at least once.”

“Hey! Too much information,” Bo whined. “Would you want to sit and listen to George talk about his and Karen’s sex life?”

“I guess not,” Jebb sobered just a bit at the comparison.

“Bo, Luke already said that you could take a walk. If you happen to be here to hear everything, it’s your own fault.” Cooter wanted to know what that grin had been about.

“You ain’t got to go nowhere Bo. After all, neither one of these fellas would believe me anyway. I’ll just leave it saying that I don’t mind being tied to the marriage bed.” Jebb couldn’t help but notice how his dark haired cousin and the slightly older mechanic seemed disappointed when he dropped the subject. “Weren’t we all suppose be helping you get caught up on all of this backed up work? You promised everyone that they’d have their cars back before Christmas.”

“Jebb’s right. Let’s get to work.” Cooter reluctantly put his mind back to the task at hand. All of the guys began their various tasks servicing the half a dozen cars that needed attention. Jebb headed over to the Pontiac that was in the bay area that needed an oil change when Luke hollered out to him.

“You’d better take that shirt off since Daisy’s doin’ your laundry right now. If she finds an oil stain on it, she’ll kill you.” Jebb shrugged and took off his long-sleeved button up shirt and started to work with just his under shirt on. When he reached out from under the car to grab a tool, Luke caught a glimpse of what looked like rope burns on his wrist. “What happened to you?”

“Huh?” Jebb slid out from under the car that he was working on and looked up at his cousin. Luke pointed to the tale-tale red marks on Jebb’s wrists. Looking back down to his wrists, he saw the evidence of Kira’s little bit of fun from this morning. “Oh. That’s nothin’. Just a little souvenir. I told ya that being tied to the marriage bed didn’t have to be boring.” Jebb gave a grin and slid back under the car. Luke and Cooter exchanged looks then each grabbed a foot and yanked Jebb back out.

“You want to run that by us again?”

“Oh, I don’t know. According to you two, anything I say will be an exaggeration anyway. As a married man, I’m supposed to have a dull, boring sex life. Maybe even a non-existent one.” Jebb went to slide back under the car but was stopped by another tug on his foot. “Y’all aren’t actually interested are you?” Jebb knew that the more he played them, the more curious they’d get. “I mean, I could tell ya, but I’m sure that this morning couldn’t compare to any of y’alls stories.”

“Oh I REALLY don’t want to hear this.” Bo headed on out for that walk Luke had suggested earlier. Even though they had always discussed dates, girls, and sex, he really wasn’t ready to add his sister into that equation. After he closed the door he heard Luke on the other side of the door.

“SO THAT’S WHAT SHE WANTED TO KNOW HOW TO TIE A KNOT FOR!” Then Bo heard both Luke and Cooter laughing. Bo shook his head and headed over to Rhuebottom’s. Now he REALLY DIDN’T WANT TO KNOW.

Inside, Jebb gave an edited version what had happened earlier that morning. He might have added a FEW embellishments here and there, if he thought that would make the two men in front of him envious. He really didn’t need to add to the truth this time, though. “If I had only known, I might have taught her a knot that she couldn’t untie,” Luke chuckled.

“So you’re the one that taught her those knots. Last I knew, she couldn’t tie a knot to save her life. I don’t know if I should thank you or punch you in the nose.”

“By the look of that dopey grin on your face, I’d say you owe me a great deal of thanks. I’ll take them in payments of beers over at the Boar’s Nest the next time we’re all out there.”

“Do you know how strange it feels to wake up and find yourself all tied up?”

“I still can’t believe that you LET her do it to you up?” Cooter was a bit dumb founded.

“It wasn’t so much as I let her, Cooter. I was asleep remember? But after this morning...” Jebb had the feeling that he had a permanent smile beginning to take root on his face. “Let’s just say, I wouldn’t stop her if she wanted to try it again.”

“You’ve GOT to be kidding.” Luke was waiting to hear Jebb say that this was all a joke that he’d come up with to make Bo uncomfortable. Despite that fact that their cousin left.

“Hey, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.” Getting an amusing thought, Jebb added, “On second thought, if you let some of the women that you date tie you up, they just might never turn you loose. They would’ve finally found a way to catch ya and make it so that you can’t get away.”

“Is that a fact?” Luke shook his head in disbelief. He couldn’t believe that Jebb wouldn’t mind being trussed up, AGAIN. You wouldn’t find HIM letting a woman hog tie him, to a bed or anything else.

“Yep. Of course, I don’t mind being caught.” Jebb laughed as he rolled back under the car. Though he may have to do something about the ropes that Kira had used. He couldn’t exactly go around explaining the rope burns every time she decides to have fun. Or vice versa. After all, as she put it, turnabout is fair play. Of course her time will have to wait until after the babies are born. But he could suffer through a few more wake up calls like he’d had this morning before then.




A couple of days later, with the recently repaired truck, Jebb went going to pick out his and Kira’s first Christmas tree. He also had to pick up the gifts that Kira had ordered by phone since she hadn’t been allowed to go out shopping this year for presents. Of course Jebb had the feeling that Kira preferred to do her shopping that way since she’d never cared to do much shopping anyway.

When he was waiting for the clerk over in Capital City to bring the packages out, he did a little shopping himself. Kira was always someone hard to shop for. She never cared for a lot of frills that most men could just pick up half thinking. He decided against perfumes, rings, necklaces, and things like that for the anniversary present. He did decide on a pair of ear rings for the Christmas present, though. But he still needed a good present for the day after Christmas. He didn’t think that getting jewelry for both presents would be a good idea.

One bad thing that he didn’t think about last year, he had to get both a Christmas present for Kira and an anniversary gift at the same time. But at least he could never forget when it is. Getting an idea, he went back over to the accessory department again. Once the clerk rang everything up, Jebb headed on back to Hazzard. By this time next week, he’d be planning for his folks to come in for a week so he and Kira had better enjoy their time alone before they have company.




For Christmas, the family had gone in together and gotten a rocking chair to put into the nursery. Jesse pointed out that he’d spent many of hours rocking Bo in the old rocker over at his house. Kira hoped that neither of the twins would take after Bo and have colic. From the way Jesse had described it, it could wear a person out dealing with a colicky baby. She PRAYED that NEITHER of the babies would have it.

On her way upstairs for the night, Kira went and took a look around the nursery. With the exception of the second crib that was up in the attic, the nursery was all finished. The curtains were hung up; the single crib had one of the quilts in it. The dresser had various baby clothes tucked away in it. A dark blue rug was in the center of the room that matched the blue in the curtains and quilts lying on the hardwood floor. Now, the rocking chair was sitting over in the corner, waiting for the babies to be born to start its hours of rocking to soothe tired crying infants.

“I think you took a wrong turn at the stairs.” Jebb came up and wrapped his arm around Kira from behind. “Looks good, don’t it. Just about all ready for the babies.”

“I just had to get a good look at it. I haven’t really been able to do much with the nursery. Now that it’s done, what am I supposed to do to keep busy until the babies are born?”

“I think I could come up with a few ideas.” Jebb hugged her a bit closer to himself.

“I’m sure you could.” Kira smiled and leaned further into Jebb’s arms. “Are we really ready for this?”

“Everything’s gonna be great. Just you wait.” Jebb kissed Kira’s temple as he watched Kira battle between the memories of her own childhood and watched as she began to file away the bits and pieces that she rarely let surface and talked about even less. “Come on; time to get you back off of your feet.” Jebb pulled Kira back toward the opposite end of the hall towards the bedroom. “Everyone’s gone, Daisy and Jesse cleaned up. They insisted. They all plan to stay away tomorrow. It’ll just be the two of us.”

“You mean the FOUR of us?” Kira said as the two other Dukes started to let her know that they weren’t ready to go to sleep just yet. Jebb smiled as he saw Kira rub her stomach like she tended to do when she wanted the twins to calm down.

“Hey you two, calm it down. Your mom and dad want to have some Christmas fun.”

“Somehow I don’t think that they’re gonna listen. They both must take after you.” Kira giggled as Jebb gave her a look. “I think I’m goin’ to be in trouble just as soon as they learn to talk.”

“Don’t look at me. If they like to argue, they will be taking after the lawyer in the family.” Jebb chuckled. “Come on, you’ve been standing up too long.” The two headed on to bed with the twins still making their presence known.




“Alright, my turn. Here ya go.” Jebb handed Kira a wrapped box that he’d hidden under the bed. Kira looked at him questioningly. You never knew what you’d get from Jebb. “Well, go ahead. Or you could try to guess, but I doubt that you’d be right.”

Kira went ahead and began to remove the paper from the box. She could tell that he had the store wrap the box up for him since he tended to wrap presents like a four year old would; and he opened them up in the same fashion. When she opened the box up, she found a hand full of decorative silk scarves. Most of them in various shades of dark greens or rich browns.

“You’re right, I wouldn’t have guessed. Uh Jebb, now that I’m not going to court on a daily basis, I don’t wear many outfits that I’d wear a scarf with anymore, I know you. You want to share just what made you think of scarves?”

“Well, I was thinking, if you or I decide to have a repeat of Saturday, we might not want to explain the rope burns every time. I had a time when Luke and Cooter questioned me about the marks Saturday.”

“Oh no. I forgot about you going off with them afterwards. How did you explain them?”

“I just told them the truth.” Jebb watched Kira’s face turn red.

“You didn’t? I’ll never be able to look either of them in the eye again. Why’d you tell them the truth? Couldn’t you tell a lie just ONCE?” Kira grabbed a pillow and hid her face in embarrassment.

“Hey, why tell a lie when the truth is so much more interesting. Besides, they were going on about their dates then about how since we’re married that our love lives had dried up. Making jokes about how I must be missing out now that I’m, in Cooter’s words, Tied to the Marriage Bed. I just said that I didn’t mind being tied to the bed then went back to work. When Luke saw my wrists ... well ... Let’s just say that their stories don’t compare to any that we could tell so I made sure that they knew that.”

“So that’s why Luke was smirking at you all night last night? Oh God!”

Jebb moved the pillow away and gave Kira a kiss. “I only have two things to ask. One, don’t ever leave me like that for someone to find me.”

“I knew you enjoyed yourself.” Kira giggled despite her embarrassment.

“And two, remember that anything you do to me, I get to do back to you.” Jebb moved his hand to cup her as he spoke. “As soon as the doctor releases you after the babies are born, you’ve got some payback coming your way.”

“Really?” Somehow she’d thought that she would have a hard time convincing Jebb to let her tie him up again. She never thought that it’d be his idea. “Maybe I’d better see to it that the check’s gonna be a bit bigger when you cash it in.” Kira grinned then gave Jebb a passionate kiss. They may as well test those scarves out now.

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