The following is based on the following 4 stories:
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton
"Darry's Mistake" Iamafanoftoomanythingstoname
"Ponyboy's Note" Jkupchurch
"The Outsiders 2: The Wrong Side of the Tracks" unwrittenlove
Crazy Night
1:30 a.m.
"Darry! Darry!"
Sodapop shakes his older brother vigorously.
"Um..." Darry mumbles.
"Darry, Wake Up!"
"Soda" Darry grumbles, still half asleep.
"We've got to find Ponyboy! We've got to stop him from killing himself before it's too late!"
"Wh a at?!" Darry throws off the bed covers and follows Soda.
"See look at his note!" Soda flicks the kitchen light on. "He left it here!"
Darry looks around, growing puzzled.
"Soda-I don't see any note here-you sure you weren't dreaming?"
Soda grabs Darry's arm. "We've got to find him!"
Soda races to the front door and nearly throws it open, when suddenly, there is a loud outcry from the bedroom that Sodapop shares with Ponyboy.
"Darry! Soda! Come back to me!" shrieks Ponyboy.
Darry runs into the room with Soda in hot pursuit behind him.
Upon seeing them enter, Ponyboy sits up in bed, his eyes all big and black.
"Oh Darry-I thought you were killed from falling off a roof! & Soda -I thought you got stabbed to death! & I was left alone in the world, and then the court forced me to live with Medusa, who cussed me out and kicked me down the stairs to an underground pit full of 20 foot tall king cobras &..."
"Shh Pony Shh Shh" Darry soothes his youngest brother as he holds and rocks him gently.
"You were just having a bad dream, that's all."
"Don't you leave us either Ponyboy!" Soda nearly shouts. "You take that suicide note of your and rip it to shreds and burn it! We couldn't stand it without you!"
Ponyboy stares at Sodapop, bewildered. "What do you mean? What suicide note?"
"The one you left on the kitchen table-you said you were going to swallow a lethal dose of pills in the vacant lot!"
Ponyboy just stares at him.
"Soda," he finally responds," I miss Mom and Dad and Johnny and Dally terribly-but I don't want to cause you and Darry any more pain!"
"Oh Ponyboy!" the color floods back into Soda's face and he hugs his little brother in relief.
"Soda-I think you and Ponyboy were both having severe nightmares within the past hour" says Darry.
They all 3 embrace for more than a few moments, then Soda climbs back into bed next to Ponyboy.
"You 2 rest peacefully now" Darry states, almost like he is giving a command.
Quickly, he pats their backs and flips off the bedroom and kitchen lights before he finally stumbles back to his own room and bed.
"Whew, what a night!" he says wearily to himself just before he closes his eyes and drifts off into his own exhausted sleep.